Pets at Home, Newbury. Image via Google A MOTHER and daughter assaulted another woman outside Pets at Home following an argument over social distancing, a court has found. Mary Ann Farley, 42, and Lucy Farley, 19, both of The Oaks, Newbury, attacked the woman outside the popular animal store in Newbury in what was described as an act of “excessive self-defence.” The “2-on-1” attack left the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, with soreness and swelling on her head. Both Mary Ann and Lucy Farley said they were acting in self-defence after it was claimed the woman initially ‘elbow barged’ the mother in the ribs.
PRISON time will not be served by a Bracknell man who arranged to meet up for sex with a fake 13-year-old girl . Anthony Gillam, of Warfield Park, Bracknell, messaged a decoy Facebook account which was posing as the young girl back in June 2018. A court heard, despite being told she was just 13 years old, Gillam arranged for them to meet at Premier Inn hotel in Slough. Continuing to message her, the 50-year-old asked her for topless photos and told her not to tell her mother about the hotel booking. However, Gillam cancelled the hotel on the day the pair was supposed to meet.
Rail ticket stock images. (PA) A DAY in court is rarely a good day, and for train fare dodgers, they’re often very bad days. Several people who failed to pay their rail fares and subsequently neglected to pay up after being asked too appeared in Reading Magistrates Court last week. Some of them paid huge amounts worth several times more than the fee they were originally supposed to pay. Here are five Berkshire train-ticket dodgers who will have to pay huge fines.
Sadeque Ali, of High Street, Burnham, was told to fork out £440 in fines plus costs of £180 after he skipped a £1.60 train fare travelling via Great Western Railway in December last year.